Christopher McQuarrie Quotes

I feel the best scripts are those that are originally written to be films: that is film in its purest sense.

I still enjoy watching films more than making them.

I am a movie buff. I am a huge fan of all genres, and watch them whenever I can. I also write and produce movies in the offseason.

I don't just look at things as an actor. I've also written several films, so I look at it as a storyteller and I know if something worked and should have been in there for the benefit of the story and the benefit of the character.

It's amazing how everyone has their different ways of working. I like hearing about that process, reading about it. I have so much appreciation for movies because I understand how hard it is to make one. There is always something I gain from watching a movie, whether it's a silly romantic comedy or an art film.

I have a lot of favorite films. I tend to love the silliness of 'Bringing Up Baby.' 'Charade' is fantastic. 'His Girl Friday,' the banter in that, that alone made me want to be a writer.

It certainly made a film writing career for me.

My first movie, 'Heathers,' had played at the festival, so I had a little bit of a Sundance connection, but I didn't really know about the Labs.

So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they're good scripts.

I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film.

TV and film were always governing passions of mine, and that first wave of great HBO shows in the early years of the millennium was feeding my desire for fiction more than the books I was reading.

Most of my writing work has been in film. I have done some TV, but most of it has been in film.

I go to universities to talk to the students and teach them how to watch movies. Movies have so many elements - acting, music, art direction, costumes. I also tell them not to watch pirated movies. At the cinema, they can enjoy the big screen and the surround sound.

Up until doing this movie, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie, it really gave me a different sense of appreciation of the way the movies play out.

I have not grown up on movies. I didn't watch much films in my childhood, but I was fond of animation films.

I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

Film has always been where my heart is.

Preston Sturges is one of my favorites. I learned about dialogue and timing from him - louder, faster, funnier. But I do love Mel Brooks.

I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.

I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.

I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative was through film.

I remember the first time I saw 'Frances Ha' and was like, 'This is what I want to do.'

I am a student of cinema, and I love filmmaking of all kinds.

One thing I don't do anymore is read or pay attention to the critical response, which is a bummer because when I started, and when I was in school, I loved to read old film criticism.

I'm an observer - a watcher of movies my whole life.